Here are two great posts on why Dodgeball died from Caroline McCarthy and Rick Webb, who points out “despite what you will read these days, it did indeed take off at first.” The general problem was, the circa-Friendster network started before people used web and email on their mobile devices. Twitter was lucky enough to catch the smartphone wave. I had about nine friends on Dodgeball in 2004 in DC (where I was living at the time). It was, at face value, perfect as most of us just went to the same five bars anyway and there was a one-in-five chance we’d run into each other on a Saturday night. But, I never felt comfortable mass-SMSing “my network.” It seemed too damn needy and unspecific. The seemingly narcissistic borderline-autistic tendency that people knock Twitter users for is really its saving grace. You can use Twitter without knowing another person on the network. It’s microblogging, not mass-texting service, and that less specific platform allows for more transformative use.

Posted by Joanne on Jan 16, 2009 | Comments | Link

Freak Out Your Friends With Fake Obama VP TXT

Posted by Joanne on Aug 20, 2008 | Comments | Link

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